Nsplugins and javascript: urls

[Alex Russell]

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On Friday 28 February 2003 12:48 pm, George Staikos wrote:
>    Well it's not really inside konqueror, but inside the nsplugins part
> and code.  It seems that a lot of plugins request
> javascript:document.location, javascript:history.back(), etc.  The
> problem is that they are implemented, but they just don't work presently.
> :)  I put in a hack for history.back() and it seems to work nicely.
>  There is also a hack present for
> document.location, but I dont' think it works at all.  For instance,
> playing films on atomfilms seems to have broken recently (I think they
> changed the site), and it works all the way up to the point where the
> plugin requests the url (with notification) javascript:document.location.

If the set of operations that plugins require is small, then can we just 
extend to them a hacked stub that provides read-only access to those 
properties? I have a very bad feeling about a full javascript: 
pseudo-protocol.

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Alex Russell
alex at netWindows.org
alex at SecurePipe.com
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